Maze Runner is a science fiction book by James Dashner. It takes place in a testing facility that is a giant maze in a post apocalyptic world. The main character Thomas' greatest fear is being stung by a griever. Grievers are large half mechanic half slug monster with mechanical arms and if it stings you will die with out the Grief Serum, if you do get it in time you go through a terrible process called the changing. During this process you remember things from before the maze. So this is a reasonable fear. He confronts these fears by exploring the maze were the Grievers live. He is also afraid of being trapped in the maze overnight because that means you will most likely get stung, even with this he still rushed into the maze to save his friend. Gally is the one person who hates Thomas from the start and says he remembers him from the changing. Gally is also of afraid of the outside because he remembered something awful called the flare. It seems to be unreasonable to everybody else because they have not seen it on the outside... Or so they can remember. He remembers it is called the Flare, they later learn that solar flares have made places near the equator uninhabitable and there is a virus that targets the brain making it so that you are reduced to nothing but a wild animal with nothing but the need for survival. Gally is also banished from the glade and is later forced to kill Thomas' best friend Chuck. Teresa is the first girl in the glade and the last not just the last girl, the last person. They did not trust her because she was the first girl and "Wicked is Good" written on her arm. This made them distrust her because they had always thought Wicked was bad because there are signs that say W.I.C.K.E.D. in the maze. It stands for World In Catastrophe: Killzone Experiment Department who are trying to find a cur for the Flare. The characters in this book all have reasonable fears but are all brave and for the most part...

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...October 11, 2013
Period 1
MazeRunner Book Report
Thomas is the narrator and protagonist of the story. He arrives in the maze with no knowledge of who he is or was. He only remembers his name and nothing else about his life. Thomas proves to be brave and clever even though he only has a very limited memory of previous knowledge of the Maze. Since arriving in the maze, Thomas makes both friends and enemies and proves to be a leader among the other boys with him in the maze.
Teresa is a teenage girl who mysteriously arrives in the maze a day after Thomas. She tells everyone that everything is about to change in the maze, before slipping into a coma. Thomas is sure that he knows Teresa from before, but can’t remember. Later, it’s revealed that she had worked with Thomas to create the maze. They become close friends over the course of the novel and Teresa helps Thomas and Chuck deactivate the Maze during their escape. She is the only female character throughout the entire book.
Alby is the leader of the gladers(The group of boys living in the giant maze), and has authority over much of what goes on in the Glade(the only safe area in the maze). He is hot-headed but experienced. Only a few Gladers, those who have been there the longest, ever see fit to question Alby's decisions. After being stung by...

...﻿The MazeRunner Character Changes
Summary: “When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name. His memory is blank. But he’s not alone. When the lift’s doors open, Thomas finds himself surrounded by kids who welcome him to the Glade—a large, open expanse surrounded by stone walls. Just like Thomas, the Gladers don’t know why or how they got to the Glade. All they know is that every morning the stone doors to themaze that surrounds them have opened. Every night they’ve closed tight. And every 30 days a new boy has been delivered in the lift. Thomas was expected. But the next day, a girl is sent up—the first girl to ever arrive in the Glade. And more surprising yet is the message she delivers. Thomas might be more important than he could ever guess. If only he could unlock the dark secrets buried within his mind.” (Amazon.com)
Throughout the book there were many different changes that the characters experienced. Several variables were thrown their way that they had to overcome. It is clearly shown that the characters reactions differed from the beginning of the book to the end. When the Gladers have to work together in the end, the audience can tell that each individual in the book has gone through situations where they had to react differently in a way they might not have done in the beginning.
The character that experienced the most changes was Thomas, the main protagonist. Considering...

...mind and experience. James Dashner’s The MazeRunner gives readers a new
perspective on how emotion and fear can can be almost like a prison. In the novel,
gladers, or people living in the glade, live in constant fear of what lies within the maze
and themselves. When Thomas arrives to the maze, he begins to change the way
gladers think and how fear controls them. In The MazeRunner, the main message is
that fear can control people and keep them in hiding, however, through sacrifice and
commitment people can escape from fear and change their lives. This is demonstrated
through Thomas, as he helps the gladers take control of their own future by exempting
fear and eventually escaping the one thing that controlled them; the maze.
The gladers have been running the maze for as long as they can remember, but
because of their fear and lack of commitment they have not made any new discoveries
and have accepted their state of living as their reality. In the beginning of the novel,
Thomas longs to be a runner. He is however shut down because the gladers have
almost given up and are hopeless that Thomas could help. When talking to Thomas,
Newt says, “Everything we do­­­­­our whole life, Greenie revolves around the maze.
Every lovin’ second of every lovin’ day we spend trying to fix something in honor of the ...

...Thomas, an Incidental Hero
A hero is a person of distinguished courage or ability, who sacrifices himself for other people, and leads people through difficult situations. In the book, The MazeRunner, there were many heroes but Thomas was the most heroic character. Even though Thomas was a new member of the Glade, he demonstrated his courage, his self- sacrifice for the good of others, and leadership. Thomas possessed all of these heroic qualities and more.
From the beginning of the book, Thomas was always courageous. Even though he lost his memory and did not know where he was, he did not break down, and he tried to adapt with the new environment. His first heroic act happened when he ran out of the Glade into the Maze to save Minho and the injured Alby, when they could not come back to the Glade before the Doors closed. Knowing that he had to stay in the Maze the whole night to fight against the Grievers, they were deadly mechanical monsters that came out at night to kill humans, Thomas was not concerned about his own safety. When Minho abandoned Thomas and Alby, instead of fleeing to save himself and leave Alby behind, Thomas pulled Alby off the ground and wrapped him with vines, to keep him away from the Grievers. Not only did Thomas help Alby get out of harm way, he ran the opposite way to distract the Grievers from finding Alby’s hiding spot. Thomas bravely fought the Grievers and tricked them to roll off...

...The MazeRunner by James Dashner, this book is about a boy named Thomas being brought to a completely different place with no recollection of his past, his family, but only his first name. Trapped behind walls (the Glade), they (Gladers) would need to somehow solve an unsolvable maze to escape this place.
The theme I have chosen for this task is persistence. Despite having to be imprisoned in the Glade for over 2 years, the Gladers have never stopped or given up on trying to solve the maze. Though this task seems to be pointless and impossible, they continue to persevere.
Thomas demonstrates persistence and perseverance when he is trapped in a maze with 2 other friends, he ignores the traditional point of view on how a night in the maze leads to certain death. Without this spirit, the other two boys and he would not have made it through the night. He emerges as a hero the next day bringing hope to the community.
This is a quote on page 39
“Thomas swallowed, wondering how he could ever go out there. His desire to become a Runner had taken a major blow. But he had to do it. Somehow he KNEW he had to do it.”
Thomas is convinced that he had to serve a greater purpose in the Glade. Later in the book we learn that Thomas has a connection to the Maze that might explain his compulsion.
Runners are people who spend the day in the maze...

... Vishwa Venkateshwaran
Core 1 – ESL
3/24/2015
The MazeRunner
Compare and Contrast apropos the book and the movie MazeRunner.
The MazeRunner​
is written by James Dashner. The book and the movie can be
classified by the many similarities and differences. It can be classified (difference and
similarities) in terms of the the actions of the characters Thomas and Teresa and also can
be classified in the ending of the book and the film.
Thomas is the protagonist in both book and the movie. There are plenty of action
sequences described in book in comparison with movie. For example, Thomas goes to
rescue Minho and Alby when they try to come out of the Maze in both the book and the
movie. Another example is that Thomas punches Gally in his face when he kills Chuck in
the book, whereas in the movie he doesn’t punch Gally and sits next to Chuck and cries.
Thomas also stings himself with the Griever shot which occurs both in the book and the
movie. In cessation, there are many similitudes in the actions of the dramatis personae
Thomas in the book and the movie.
Teresa was the friend of Thomas in both the book and the movie. Teresa is ​
alike
and disparate in her activities in the movie and the in the book too. Teresa was in coma in
the book and took a long time to wake up, whereas she was sleeping in the movie and ...

...15 August 2014
The MazeRunner
1) “Everything is about to change.” I feel as though this quote sums up the plot of the
MazeRunner. Life in the “Glade” was simple and routine, when Thomas shows up
everything changes. Things start to get fishy when the first girl, Teresa, shows up at the
Glade. From this moment on things that have never happened happen, the sky turns
gray, the walls of the glade don’t close, and one person dies every night. The plot of the
book is always changing with codes and mysteries becoming uncovered.”Everything is
about to change”. I can relate to this quote as my life is always changing.
2) Thomas is a character from The MazeRunner that is in conflict with himself and
some of the children from the Glade. A kid called “Gally” accused Thomas that he was
the reason everybody was stuck in the maze. Nobody has memories of their life before
the maze, so no one could prove or disprove him, this puts Thomas in conflict with
society. Thomas makes a promise to a friend, Chuck, that he will take him home. When
everyone escapes the glade Gally kills Chuck, as he can not control his actions.
Thomas thinks that it is his fault that Chuck died and feels guilty for not keeping his
promise to Chuck and therefore puts him in conflict with himself.
Cohen 2
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...‘The MazeRunner’ displays trust, bravery and friendship in times of immense crisis and doubt. ‘In times of crisis human beings individually do not react well but with our combined minds, we pull together to survive even with unfathomable obstacles in our paths’. In the very first chapters of the novel the Glader’s displayed a large amount of perseverance. Thomas could not comprehend the details of his situation but the Gladers quickly brought him up to speed. They had all woken up in the Glade with very few memories of their previous lives, but they knew one thing, survival.
‘Out there’s the Maze, everything we do- our whole life, Greenie- revolves around the Maze. Every lovin’ second of every lovin’ day we spend in honour of the Maze, tryin’ to solve something that’s not shown us it has a bloody solution ya know?(James Dashner, The MazeRunner pg.38).’
The Gladers had all been individually dropped into this ‘Utopia’ with few resources but collaboratively they made a life. They created a system of various jobs to survive; slopper, bricknick, bagger, track-hoe, runner and several more. These codenames stood for jobs such as butcher, gardener, builder and most importantly the ‘Runners’ that scoured the maze for a means of escape. Individually these boys would not last a second but collectively they created a society with civility and...